Hey, Mike Keenan? Now what's up? Perhaps in a good-bye gesture
to the former St. Louis Blues coach, Brett Hull recorded three
goals in a 7-4 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Sunday night,
December 22, to become the 24th player in NHL history to reach
the magical 500-goal milestone. The hat trick was the 26th of
Hull's career and gives him 15 goals on the season.

It was originally thought that Hull notched number 500 twenty
seconds into the third period, only to have the goal taken away
about five minutes later when video replays showed the shot had
actually been deflected off Stephane Matteau's leg. Not wanting
to let the special night slip away, Hull went back to work and
rifled a shot past Stephane Fiset at the 10:25 mark to secure his
legendary status for a second time.

LCS planned to have a real nice retrospective on Hull's career
when he reached 500, but there just wasted enough time before the
deadline to get something done. So we'll run it next issue.

This is just too big of a story to do a rush job on, and we felt
we should at least include some sort of feature on it this time.
Seeing how this is hardly large enough to call a feature, in
order to take up more space I will now hum.